Inquiry - Connect and collaborate Authentic and relevant

RICH topics allow students to ask questions related to the real world they live in.
CONNECT to the community, involve local community

Inquiry Learning models	Online tools require you to register (sign up) for an account - setting up a username and password. You some web tools you are able to set up a class account with your teacher login Software for Learning - browse software	Skills to teach Questioning, key words, searching the internet, taking notes Managing self, relating to others, participating and contributin
	e-Learning examples to try at each stage for students	Task
Building knowlwedge	Wordle - generate 'word clouds'from text Tagxedo - word clouds with styles	Copy and paste text related to a topic, click create
Locate information	Google search explained Skype - ask an expert Any Question - Help students define their search, Use of keywords, limiting searches EPIC- access to online Britanica BrainPOP Questioning skills 5 Questions teachers can ask students	Search for some information Find information about "21st century learning"
Organising information, sorting ideas	Popplet - create a mindmap of ideas Bubblus - Create colorful brainstorms and mind maps online, Share and work with friends Mindmeister - Real-time collaboration, friends can simultaneously work on the same mind map and see each other's changes as they happen. Users can create, manage and share mind maps online and access them anytime Paint / KidPix / ipad apps - draw and label Graphic Organisers - many templates	Make a brainstorm / mind map about a topic - write down as many ideas as you can think. Put your ideas into groups
Creating Presenting Information	Use the digital camera to take photos and make Videos 101 ways to use digital cameras - Jacqui Sharpe Photostory Movie Maker / iMovie Animoto - create 30 second videos online Xtranormal - Make animations from preset characters. Put in own actions and script. Writting Powerpoint / Keynote - make a hyperlinked presentation. Use Paint and Powerpoint to create a digital book - can be printed off or saved as a video file Bookr - create books with turning pages Little Bird Tales - Create e-books, record your voice, embed into a blog/wiki EssayMap - createan information report online using a graphic organiser StoryJumper ComicLife - to create evidence of understanding. Students reprocess information in order to change it from a text platform to a visual platform. Represent something graphically with minimal text while representing the key information Myths and Legends Story Creator Animations Go Animate - create animations quickly - record your voice Recording voice, interviewing Audacity - record and edit sounds Voice Thread - Create a presentation -upload a photo, document etc. and speak to it Vocaroo - record your voice online - save it to a webpage Fotobabble - add your voice to any photo online Voki - have an avatar record your voice Photostory	Use a camera to take some photos/video to create a short movie, add voice, text Make an e-book about your class topic. Find images on the internet (Pics4Learning) Plan your work - use a graphic organiser eg. storyboard Prepare a script and record your voice
Working together	Padlet - Brainstorm notes online, summarise information together, collect feedback, post questions PrimaryPad - a web-based word processor that allows students and teachers to work together in real time Google Docs
Free images	Pics4Learning - free image library -copyright-friendlyphotos and images for classrooms, multimedia projects, web sites, Digital NZ - search NZ information and images7 ways to find creative common images	search for some images, save to your computer
Collaborative Projects	Ideas created and tried by teachers - SAUCE (Trevor Bond) Learnz- Virtual field trips, take your learning outside the classroom. WickEd Handpicked collaborative Projects - ideas for across the curriculum

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The SOLO Taxonomy and Inquiry Learning
For further reading on inquiry see http://hooked-on-thinking.wikispaces.com/Inquire2Learn+Article
Links to examples of many maps for orginising thinking

British Council Classroom - Global projects

Trevor Bond - Inquiry Learning (learning to Learn)
http://ictnz.com/Inquiry%20Learning.htm

Inquiry Learning

Inquiry - Connect and collaborate Authentic and relevant

e-Learning examples to try at each stage for students

Task

Building knowlwedge

Locate information

Organising information,

Creating

Presenting Information

Use the digital camera to take photos and make Videos

Writting

Working together

Free images

Collaborative Projects

Digital Kits on VLN

How to use google presentations to make digital kits.

LEARNZ